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That's not kind, several people worked on ReiserFS even after Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife. It's a sad story for them, they liked

That's not kind, several people worked on ReiserFS even after Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife. It's a sad story for them, they liked their product and the conduct of their leader betrayed them.

hitekker 5y ago
Yet they continue to brand their software in his name. Despite the community asking for a rename https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297, tech publications pushing for a rename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4, and Linux Kernel developers just wanting nothing to do with that name. At some point, you have to wonder why the developers of a filesystem insist on associating it with a convicted murderer. Maybe stubbornness, edginess, a lack of awareness... or maybe they're friends of Hans Reiser.
- JPLeRouzic 5y ago
  I have no opinion about why the name of Reiser is still used, but in your first link there is no mention of Reiser. In an Algolia search I can't find any conversation about a name change on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Reiser%20name&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - hitekker 5y ago
    Wrong link from me. I updated with the right one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297 Algolia search also supports comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=reiser%20name&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    - JPLeRouzic 5y ago
      > Algolia search also supports comments Thanks, I didn't know that!
qahaz 5y ago
- schmidp 5y ago
  That kind of troll talk is very rare here and unnecessary. Don’t know what else to say tbh.
  - lp0_on_fire 5y ago
    The account is 17 hours old - best to not feed the troll.
- M_bara 5y ago
  Ahh, I’ll call bs on that. Reiserfs was an innovative fs at the time; in the current space, btrfs is in the same space. Stuff like tail packing and very good performance on small files (emails) made it a good fit for specific workloads.
  - PaulHoule 5y ago
    That fsck that gets confused when you store a ReiserFS image in your filesystem is a problem. I've long been interested in reading a filesystem as a text the way Derrida would read a text and ReiserFS is one of the weirder ones. Personally I have no interest in a filesystem being high performing or having interesting features if it murders your data. You might think otherwise now but after you have a serious wreck you might appreciate ext4. (Every total NTFS failure I had had to do with failing hardware but it does seem they are never the same if you make a directory with too many files.)

hitekker 5y ago

Yet they continue to brand their software in his name. Despite the community asking for a rename https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297, tech publications pushing for a rename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4, and Linux Kernel developers just wanting nothing to do with that name. At some point, you have to wonder why the developers of a filesystem insist on associating it with a convicted murderer. Maybe stubbornness, edginess, a lack of awareness... or maybe they're friends of Hans Reiser.

JPLeRouzic 5y ago
I have no opinion about why the name of Reiser is still used, but in your first link there is no mention of Reiser. In an Algolia search I can't find any conversation about a name change on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Reiser%20name&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- hitekker 5y ago
  Wrong link from me. I updated with the right one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297 Algolia search also supports comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=reiser%20name&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - JPLeRouzic 5y ago
    > Algolia search also supports comments Thanks, I didn't know that!

qahaz 5y ago

schmidp 5y ago
That kind of troll talk is very rare here and unnecessary. Don’t know what else to say tbh.
- lp0_on_fire 5y ago
  The account is 17 hours old - best to not feed the troll.
M_bara 5y ago
Ahh, I’ll call bs on that. Reiserfs was an innovative fs at the time; in the current space, btrfs is in the same space. Stuff like tail packing and very good performance on small files (emails) made it a good fit for specific workloads.
- PaulHoule 5y ago
  That fsck that gets confused when you store a ReiserFS image in your filesystem is a problem. I've long been interested in reading a filesystem as a text the way Derrida would read a text and ReiserFS is one of the weirder ones. Personally I have no interest in a filesystem being high performing or having interesting features if it murders your data. You might think otherwise now but after you have a serious wreck you might appreciate ext4. (Every total NTFS failure I had had to do with failing hardware but it does seem they are never the same if you make a directory with too many files.)